Recipes

Roquefort (blue cheese) and pear cake
Preparation : 20 min
Cooking : 50 min

Ingredients (for 8 people):
- 3 pears
- 1 1/4 cups of Roquefort (or blue cheese)
- little more than 1/2 cup of walnuts
- 1 3/4 cup of flour
- 1 teasp of baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup of grated Gruyere cheese
- 1/2 cup of oil
- 1/2 cup of milk
- a little butter
- salt
- pepper

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Mix together the flour and baking powder.
Beat the whole eggs, oil and milk, salt and pepper until well blended.
Pour this batter in the flour, add in the grated cheese and mix (not too much).
Cut pieces of Roquefort and pears, and add them, with the nuts, into the batter.
Butter and flour a cake mould, pour the preparation in.
Bake approximately 50 min.
Very good warm, with a salad...
Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc


Stuffed zucchinis
Preparation : app. 30 min
Cooking : 40 min

Ingredients (for 4 people)
- 4 little zucchinis
- 2 onions
- 1 or 2 garlic cloves
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup of sorrel mushrooms
- 2 tbsp of sour cream
- 3/4 cup of grated cheese (gruyere)
- 2 tbsp of olive oil
- 1 nob of butter
- parsley
- salt and pepper

Directions:
Cut out a lid on the top of zucchinis (lengthwise), then hollow them out.
Cook for 10 minutes in a salted water pan, then let them cool and drain.
In hot oil, brown the chopped onions, garlic and parsley with the pulp of zucchinis in the olive
oil.
Brown the sorrels with butter.
In the onion mix, add the sour cream, the sorrels, eggs and the grated cheese and season.
Stuff the zucchinis with this mixture, cover them with their lid, and lay them out in a oven
dish on a sheet of aluminum foil.
Bake for 30 min at 400°F, by adding a little water in the dish if needed in the course of
cooking.

Relocation of Urban Poor

Relocation Solution Poses a Dilemma to Slum Dwellers Made Homeless by Ondoy.
This story is the second one I've read in a day about the relocation of people. The first one concerns removing the homeless from the area where the Olympic torch is expected to travel for the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. I was very surprised that we here in Canada would do this - as one advocate said, why not just house them? Internationally, the local government in Manila will not allow the families return to the area where a recent storm destroyed their homes. It is considered a hazard/dangerous to return. Instead, they've allocated some land outside the city. This is good, yes, but there is a snag. No social services out there, no jobs. If they do maintain jobs in the city, it will cost them more to travel to work. I don't understand why it is so difficult to find land within the city.